SupportCandy – Helpdesk & Support Ticket System <= 2.2.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-24879
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published January 5, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher apple502j
Description

The SupportCandy – Helpdesk & Support Ticket System WordPress plugin before 2.2.7 does not have CSRF check in the wpsc_tickets AJAX action, nor has any sanitisation or escaping in some of the filter fields which could allow attackers to make a logged in user having access to the ticket lists dashboard set an arbitrary filter (stored in their cookies) with an XSS payload in it.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug supportcandy (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.7
Patched Version
  • 2.2.7
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